Farewell to ’21 and Cell-o to the New Year: Day 1
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Jacob Collier: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire EPIC FESTIVE CELLO COVER with Jeremy Tai and Special Guests.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Jacob Collier: Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire EPIC FESTIVE CELLO COVER with Jeremy Tai and Special Guests.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Bridges and Bows May Cause Excess Physical Tension with Paul Katz and Rob Mayes.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Paul Katz on his 1669 Guarneri with Rob Mayes.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Tips on Selecting a Bow with Paul Katz and Rob Mayes.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Paul Katz on Selecting Bows to Match His Cello with Rob Mayes.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Projecting the Cello in an Ensemble with Paul Katz and Rob Mayes.
Count down the days to the New Year with CelloBello! Today's featured video is Paul Katz Master Class: Debussy Sonata Prologue and Sérénade (Opening).
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Grammy-nominated cellist Aristides Rivas is a founding member of the fusion world music band Voci Angelica Trio. Rivas has performed at a wide range of international music venues and festivals such as Caramoor Music Festival, Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, Newport Jazz Festival, the Barbican in England, Sejong Center in South Korea, and Teatro Colon in Argentina, among others.
Critics have described American cellist Brinton Averil Smith as a “virtuoso cellist with few equals,” hailing him “a proponent of old-school string playing such as that of Piatigorsky and Heifetz.” Smith’s debut recording of Miklós Rózsa’s Cello Concerto with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra received widespread international critical acclaim, with Gramophone praising Smith as a “hugely eloquent, impassioned soloist,” and continuing “The sheer bravura of Smith’s reading is infectious” while the American Record Guide praised his recording of chamber music of Fauré with Gil Shaham as “Stunningly beautiful,” continuing “I cannot imagine a better stylistic match for Shaham.”
Kevin Olusola is best known as the beat boxer of the a cappella quintet Pentatonix. The three-time Grammy® Award-winning and multi-Platinum-selling group has sold more than 10 million albums and performed for fans at their sold-out shows across the globe. Their YouTube channel boasts over 19 million subscribers and yields over 5.1 billion video views. As a solo artist who's been been classically trained in cello, piano, and saxophone, the Yale graduate fuses popular and classical styles together to create a sound new to classical instrumentation.
Mark Kosower joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal cello in 2010. Described as “a virtuoso of staggering prowess” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he is a consummate artist equally at home internationally as a recital and concerto soloist. As an orchestral principal, he was formerly solo cellist of the Bamberg Symphony in Germany (2006-10).